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I've owned my quilt shop since 1990, specializing in antique reproduction fabrics. Made my first quilt in 1976 which greatly reduced my sewing of clothing! Would like to find more time to SEW.......maybe when I retire? Am married to a farmer, have 3 children and 4 grandchildren who are the light of my life!!! And now there are 3 great-grandchildren and another due in January 2019!

Ann Robinson Bedcover
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This bedcover is one of the earliest quilts in the Shelburne Museum
collection, and is on the cover of the book Enduring Grace, Quilts from the
Shelburn...

5 years ago

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Scrap Box Winner

is Terry in PA! Let me know your address and I will send it on its way!

Working on this whenever I had an hour or so in the sewing room produced this finished "Morning Walk" top with Betsy Chutchian's fabric.

Also have Jo Morton club 16 small quilt ready to assemble! I could make 4-patches all day long! These 4-patches are 1-1/2"...finished block a little over 4".

This is Jo's quilt but I am using the Jacobean floral stripe just because I have to! Love that fabric in all 4 colorways!

Quilting with my Half Hoop on a large Tumbler tablerunner using Jo's "Gratitude" and "Reflections".....I got this hoop about 29 years ago.....it's made of cherrywood and has served me well all these years even tho the $30 price of it floored me at the time!! Correct tension (I like it it kinda loose) is easy to achieve even tho it is not adjustable. I often use it for small quilts too.

On an entirely different note........I love to read but feel the need to do two things at once.....while I sew (and while I drive too!), I love to listen to audiobooks......in the sewing room, it is"The Lilac Girls" about three women from different parts of the world during WW2 (excellent first novel from author Martha Hall Kelly). In the car, it is "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.....read it in 8th or 9th grade, but wanted to refresh my memory of it. Waiting in the queue is "Apollyn", #5 from Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series (don't know how I missed this 20 or so years ago, but I did!!) and "1984" by Orwell. Anyone have any titles they've enjoyed lately?

17 comments:

You have such lovely projects! Those 4 patches are wonderful. I like the pink fabric around them and that floral stripe is going to be gorgeous! Morning walk looks so summery and Betsy's fabrics are beautiful. Your half hoop looks like such a good idea - enjoying your stitching :0)

Each one of your projects brings a smile to my face.Love your stripe of choice on the "Jo" quilt.Wonder what you'd have to pay to get a hoop like that today?Oh, Randy is coming to see you again? How fun--and I am jealous. : )

Lovely pieces you're working on! Love the 4 patches with the floral border! Yummy! And 'Animal Farm' was a category on Jeopardy the other night....couldn't recall a thing....I guess I need to read it again! lol